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Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.
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The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.
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Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God had determined to do, was awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until night by all means was desirous to know it.
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And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.
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And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artaxerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.
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Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, they were strangled.
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And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.
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So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.
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Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus andhis people because of the two eunuchs of the king.
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Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)
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That in those days, when the king Ahasuerus sat on the throne of his kingdom, which was in Shushan the palace,